Alex Turkeltaub

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@brhodes He should ask you for more advice - you did a great job with Arab spring, the Syrian redline, Libya, etc

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@McFaul Most likely - if true - because parts of the regime leadership or terror infrastructure is using those facilities!

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@RichardHaass In what world is killing the enemy’s command and control structure in a war a bad idea??? This clearly puts pressure on the regime. We all wish Von Stauffenberg had succeeded don’t we?

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@Mylovanov Is this the same fake expert who told us Ukraine will lose automatically ? He never seems to apologize when he’s wrong

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@TimothyDSnyder You lose all credibility as a historian when you make polemical points such as these. Much to criticize about Trump - but we’ve lost to Iran? You’ve
Got serious TDS.

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@tparsi Aren’t you paid by Iran??

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@NickKristof @vali_nasr This is nonsense - one would think the old kremlinology of the good bad guy versus the bad bad guy would be discredited. We don’t know who will come to power - what we do know is they need to be scared. After world war 2 we hoped Stalin wouldn’t be assassinated…

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@shaunmmaguire That’s absolutely right - the ayatollahs used fools like Mamdani to make themselves appear decent!

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@jonfavs Wow hugely articulate! And your speechwriting expertise gives you what insight into foreign policy?

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@brhodes No but it does need to go to war to avoid Iran dominating the Middle East. Weren’t you the guy who told us Arab spring was good news?

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@wolfejosh The problem with your analysis is two fold: a) we can achieve all the objectives you lay out - which I agree with - via an agreement with Denmark and b) breaking NATO also has geopolitical costs. Europe will likely cut a deal or deal with China …

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@simonmontefiore Only a naive fool like Carter could have fallen for it! Had Nixon been president it would have never happened.

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@thecabbagemans @JDVance @nfergus Well first of all, their domestic politics are irrelevant to us - we support Saudi Arabia ! Second, the Ukrainians want to fight - we aren’t forcing them. Third, you know nothing about Ukraine if you believe it’s remotely as anti democratic as Russia.

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@JDVance @nfergus - JD is articulate and smart and oh so very wrong (reminds me of @BarackObama in that!).

There is the tactical and the strategic.  Let's start with the tactical: whether we have a good hand to play or bad, what you want Russia to believe is that our hand is strong.  That means talking down Ukraine's chances, making clear that all new aid is off the table, attacking Zelensky, etc etc all increase Putin's desire to ask for more, not less.  Similarly, the desire to cut a quick deal gives Putin leverage as he thinks we are dying for a deal so will take anything.  This happened before btw -- to share some "irrelevant history" we tried to get South Vietnam and the Afghanis to reform their government to our liking while they fought; the results were a disaster.  It's classic American stupidity in foreign policy.

We also have some REALLY powerful levers here.  We could do what Kissinger recommended and threaten to let the free part of Ukraine into NATO unless Putin agrees to a reasonable deal; we could do what Walter Mead recommends and attack Russian interests elsewhere (Africa for example) to explain to them that the costs of not being reasonable are high.  We could tell the Europeans that they can fund ukraine and we will match to drive European money.  I could go on.

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@Tetradugenikid @zei_squirrel @scotthortonshow And?

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@zei_squirrel @scotthortonshow Here’s another genius - Jeff Sachs! Did such a good job in the 90s now he’s back advising in an area he knows even less about…

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